Hand-tool for forming ornamental loops



lille IiilIiJllll-Tl0lh FR EURIPIIING ORNAMENTL LOOPS.

specification el Letters Patent.

Patented Mer. 2'9, 1921.

Application led. November 19, 1919. Serial No. 339,226.

fo All who/nt t Intrigen/12C rn Be it lfnown that l, Chemins Doom, e :former subjeot of 'the lllinperor of Russin., residing' :it Philadelphie, county oil? .Phileelphio, ond irltzite el llennsylvenin, have invented e new end useful improvement in i Y- limi d Tools 'l'or Form uur llriluinentol I 4hope, olf whioh the following' ie 1i full,

l eleer. and emot deserilition, reference being had lo the zwoornponyine; drawings. which `form u part olf this elniciliention. Y

llfly invention is Applicable to hond tools Yhereby yarn only be inserted through i brie to torni e series ot loops upstunding the hice ol? the tehrlo und inl'mrting thereto :no ornnnientnl elli-,et The object olf the invention 'is to provide :i simple and in eupelfisire ronstruction whereby the ol' the loops may he predetermined.

The invention is illustrated in the nooom punyingf drawing., which is :i longitudinal seoliionol View lliereol".

Il. hen'- o: hue onthulling tl'irougl'h it :in efiiul ori within which :il needle is lixedly poi-minimi. The needle oit tubular lorni. (hie end olf the tulle projects beyond the forwnrd end, ol the handle end beveled ut the end to form :in exposed Woll through whieh is formed :in eye To ihr ed the needle the end olf the yarn is severed to o. wire. The wire is poser through the needle, carrying! the threed with it. The thread is now detached from the wire und pulled through the eye.

ln operuting the tool, the threaded end ol the needle is pushed bueh ond ifortli throughV the iubrc, lori'ninggj n series of loops on one 'loro und un ordinary sewing stitch @fleet on the other llico.

ln order to insure uniformity in the dininetor el the loops, the shank ot the needl i, :it enel. reelproeetion, should be pushed through until the liront end of the handle ahnte against the l'elnio n b ln order to prmleteriniue the d. mete ol' the loops, there is provided o o? weshci, operating as gage members, one of more of which may be slippedfonto the needle and against the end of thelhnndle. To form o, large loop none of the Washers .is IApplied. To make a loop of thenext smaller size, one wlsher is applied. Two or three washers ere applied to make progressively smaller loops, While all four Washers are applied to make the smallest loops. It is obvious, of course, that any number ol' Washers muy be employed. Itis obvious, also, that these Washers form, in effect, an extension of the handle so fer :is the handle forms un abutment for the fabric.

It is important, in order to secure easy :ind certein operation, that the aree of the abutment allor-ded by the front face of the handle should be relatively small endfor this .reason the front of the handle is nar` rowed in diameter relatively to .the diem eter of the mein body of the handle.

It will be understood that, as the looping operation proceeds, additional yarn s being fed through the hollow handle end needle,

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

A tool for forming a series of ornamental. loops on the fece oi' the fabric, comprising e hollow needle und :i handle into which. the needle extends, the front end of the' needle being beveled and' projecting beyond the handle ond the rear end of the handle hav ing; nn opening' ti permit the passage of e thread through the handle and the hollow needle to the beveled end thereof, and detoehuble gege members sleeved on the needle and movable ,against the front end of the handle and forming e continuation of the handle, whereby n variable number of the rege members muy he removed to predeterinine the depth ot' penetration ol the needle.

ln testimony of which invention I have hereunto set my hund, et Philudell'ihie, Pa., on this 18th duly of November, 1.919.

CHARLES DUBIN. 

